Privacy Notice

Susam.Net (this website) is a personal website maintained by Susam Pal. This privacy notice explains how this website uses the data it collects from you when you use this website.

Data Items

This website collects the following data:

  1. The text submitted by you if you submit a new comment to this website. This text submitted by you may contain your name, a URL to your profile on the world wide web, and a comment. This text is written by you, so you are in complete control of what you submit in the text. You must not submit sensitive personal data to this website.

  2. Your Internet Protocol (IP) address used to visit this website.

  3. HTTP referrer URL sent by your web browser or client software while connecting to this website. A web browser or a client software typically, but not necessarily, sends the URL of the web page or website where you clicked on a link to visit this website as the HTTP referrer value. If this website is visited directly without clicking on any link, then a web browser or client does not typically send any HTTP referrer data.

  4. User agent string sent by your web browser or client software while visiting this website. A web browser or a client software typically, but not necessarily, sends the names and versions of your device, operating system, and web browser or client software as the user agent string.

Data Collection

When you visit this website, your IP address, referrer data, and user agent string are automatically recorded in web server log files.

When you submit a new comment to this website successfully, your text is written to a file on the web server. If the comment submission fails due to errors, then your text is neither saved nor published. If the comment submission succeeds, the text submitted by you is reviewed within 30 days. If your comment is found to be suitable for this website, then the text you have submitted is published on the website. If the comment is found to be unsuitable for this website, then the text file containing your submitted text is deleted.

Data Usage

The IP address, referrer data, and user agent string is used to monitor abuse of this website such as submitting spam comments, sending too many requests to reduce the availability of this website, etc. This data is also used to mitigate abuse of this website by blocking certain combinations of IP address, referrer data, and/or user agent from accessing this website or by limiting the number of requests such a combination may send to this website.

If you submit a comment to this website successfully and if the comment is found to be suitable for this website during review, the comment text is published at a comments page on this website. When your comment text is published on this website, it becomes available publicly to anyone who visits the comments page. You must not submit sensitive personal data to this website.

Data Storage

The IP address, referrer data, and user agent string are stored in web server log files. This data is retained for 15 days. After 15 days, this data is deleted automatically.

A successfully submitted comment text is first stored in a text file on the web server. The comment text is reviewed within 30 days. If the comment is found to be suitable for this website, the comment text is copied to a comments page where the comment becomes available publicly on the world wide web. If the comment is found to be unsuitable for this website, then the text file containing your submitted text is deleted. You must never submit sensitive personal data to this website.

Cookies

This website does not use cookies.

Third-Party Analytics

This website does not use third-party analytics.

Marketing

This website does not use your data for marketing purpose.

Contact

If you have any questions about the data collected by this website, please contact susam (dot) pal (at) gmail (dot) com.